GRAFFITI ATTACK ON ILFRACOMBE BY PSYCHOS. There has been a planned graffiti attack on Ilfracombe resulting in the usual disfigurement of walls that in London and elsewhere in the country is becoming more faded as graffiti becomes yesterday's rebelliion. However, Ilfracombe's branch of loony youth is twenty years behind its contemporaries in other parts of the country so those responsible for the latest paint daubing craze are just catching up with 1991 trends. In any case what is the point of it? It's ugly, says nothing and is furtive in the same way that perverts are furtive. Maybe that's their problem and they ought to seek psychiatric help. You never see graffiti being done because the graffitists are nerds who hide away in their grimy little rooms smelling of sour trainers and cheap porn magazines and are frightened of being seen. This is because they are socially inadequate and graffiti is the only mark they will ever make on the world. Like those who disfigured their bodies with tattoss they have never been intellectually endowed enough to be able to write their thoughts on paper so they turn other people's property (and even their own skins) into toilet walls on which to express the turmoil in their undeveloped brains. Moreover, when the police take time off from shopping in Tesco perhaps they might find the time to catch up with the graffiti vandals. And where is North Devon Council's clean up team? Graffiti vandals ought to be in some kind of clinic.

Im glad you mentioned Banksy as his art always has a meaning and tells a tale,and the guy is talented.Unfortunately most people that spray or`scrawl` on walls have no talent and limited art skills,eg spray paint running down the walls,and its more suited to the backstreets of Harlem NYC than Ilfracombe Rapparee Cove.Al woz ere 2011.

You say the graffiti artists are 'socially inadequate' but surely things are not so simple. We are assuming they are young people which they probably are but what age - 11-15yrs or older? I would like to think they are just a few youngsters as so often our young people are much maligned when the majority are well behaved and caring members of society. Let's make sure as a town we give young people, especially young boys, lots of recreational facilities and opportunities to follow sport and cultural interests instead of immediately castigating all as 'socially inadequate'.

It's all well and good trying to occupy young people, but there are always going to be a few who don't have any interest in being a member of society, and prefer instead to scribble everywhere and tarnish that society instead! I don't think a single "well behaved and caring member of society" would ever "mark their territory" all over the town! There's a particular "tag" I noticed EVERYWHERE last time I went back to Ilfracombe to see my family, and not only is it upsetting to see how run down it makes places look, it's also incredibly annoying.

The graffiti attack on the Landmark proves the inefficteness of CCTV. We need policemen patrolling the streets on foot, not in cars. Graffiti always occurs in poor areas. In central London, the City and in Canary Wharf, there is no graffiti at all, anywhere. Most London suburbs are graffiti free. It is only in places where there is simmering resentment, a purposeless young working class who are unable to express themselves in conventional English, and boredom and hopelessness is in the ascendency.